NAME

gcloud-compute-disks-create - Create Google Compute Engine persistent disks

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute disks create
  NAME [NAME …]
  [--description DESCRIPTION]
  [--format FORMAT]
  [--help]
  [--image IMAGE | --source-snapshot SOURCE_SNAPSHOT]
  [--image-project IMAGE_PROJECT]
  [--project PROJECT]
  [--quiet, -q]
  [--size SIZE]
  [--type TYPE]
  [--zone ZONE]
  [-h]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud compute disks create creates one or more Google Compute Engine persistent disks. When creating virtual machine instances, disks can be attached to the instances through the gcloud compute instances create command. Disks can also be attached to instances that are already running using gloud compute instances attach-disk .

Disks are zonal resources, so they reside in a particular zone for their entire lifetime. The contents of a disk can be moved to a different zone by snapshotting the disk (using gcloud compute disks snapshot ) and creating a new disk using “--source-snapshot” in the desired zone. The contents of a disk can also be moved across project or zone by creating an image (using gcloud compute images create ) and creating a new disk using “--source-image” in the desired project and/or zone.

When creating disks, be sure to include the “--zone” option:

$ gcloud compute disks create my-disk-1 my-disk-2 --zone us-east1-a

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

NAME [NAME …]

The names of the disks to create.

FLAGS

--description DESCRIPTION

An optional, textual description for the disks being created.

--format FORMAT

Specify a format for printed output. By default, a command-specific human-friendly output format is used. Setting this flag to one of the available options will serialize the result of the command in the chosen format and print it to stdout. Supported formats are: "json", "text", "yaml".

--help

Display detailed help.

--image IMAGE

An image to apply to the disks being created. When using this option, the size of the disks must be at least as large as the image size. Use “--size” to adjust the size of the disks.

The value for this option can be the name of an image or an alias from the table below.

Alias	Project	Image Name
centos-6	centos-cloud	centos-6
coreos	coreos-cloud	coreos-beta
debian-7	debian-cloud	debian-7-wheezy
debian-7-backports	debian-cloud	backports-debian-7-wheezy
opensuse-13	opensuse-cloud	opensuse-13-1
rhel-6	rhel-cloud	rhel-6
sles-11	suse-cloud	sles-11

When the value is an alias, this tool will query the public image project that contains the image type to find the latest image matching the alias. The user’s project is also queried for an image with the same name as the alias. If a conflict exists, the user will be prompted to resolve the conflict.

To specify an image in another project for which there is no alias, use “--image-project”. When “--image-project” is present, no API calls are made to resolve the image. This property is useful for scripts.

This flag is mutually exclusive with “--source-snapshot”.

--image-project IMAGE_PROJECT

The project against which all image references will be resolved. See “--image” for more details.

--project PROJECT

Google Cloud Platform project to use for this invocation.

--quiet

Disable all interactive prompts when running gcloud commands. If input is required, defaults will be used, or an error will be raised.

--size SIZE

Indicates the size of the disks. The value must be a whole number followed by a size unit of “KB” for kilobyte, “MB” for megabyte, “GB” for gigabyte, or “TB” for terabyte. For example, “10GB” will produce 10 gigabyte disks. If omitted, a default size of 500 GB is used for standard disks and 200GB for SSD disks. The minimum size a disk can have is 1 GB. Disk size must be a multiple of 10 GB.

--source-snapshot SOURCE_SNAPSHOT

A source snapshot used to create the disks. It is safe to delete a snapshot after a disk has been created from the snapshot. In such cases, the disks will no longer reference the deleted snapshot. To get a list of snapshots in your current project, run gcloud compute snapshots list . A snapshot from an existing disk can be created using the gcloud compute disks snapshot command. This flag is mutually exclusive with “--image”.

When using this option, the size of the disks must be at least as large as the snapshot size. Use “--size” to adjust the size of the disks.

--type TYPE

Specifies the type of disk to create. To get a list of available disk types, run gcloud compute disk-types list . The default disk type is pd-standard.

--zone ZONE

The zone of the disks to create. If not specified, you will be prompted to select a zone.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the “compute/zone” property:

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can fetched by running:

gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable “CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE”.

-h

Print a summary help and exit.

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